ABSTRACT
United Nations International Children's Emergency Funds (UNICEF's) evolution over six and a half decades has established a record of performance with major implications for global governance in the twenty-first century. This analysis echoes many of the weaknesses in global governance as it exists today. Weiss and Thakur in Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey examine the weaknesses at a higher level of generality, identifying five gaps in global governance: in knowledge, norms, policies, institutions, and compliance. A great deal of recent literature in international relations and political science concentrates on global governance as it has developed over these last two or three decades. In contrast, the UN has largely followed a different paradigm of global governance, emphasizing actions designed to offset the asymmetries of the international system and calling for and supporting domestic policies and actions focused on human rights and human development.
